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Lyssna

Score7.4 out of 10

16 Reviews and Ratings

What is Lyssna?

Lyssna (formerly UsabilityHub) is a user research platform used to test digital products with real users and gain insights into their audience. Its tools and features help Lyssna to optimize users' designs and create more engaging user-friendly experiences.


Lyssna is a research platform, offering a broad range of testing features including:


  • Five Second Testing - Used to quickly test the effectiveness of landing pages, messaging and designs by showing users a screenshot for just five seconds and then asking them questions about what they saw.

  • First Click Testing - Measures how well users can navigate a design by asking them to click on specific elements.

  • Surveys - Used to collect user feedback and validate assumptions with target customers.

  • Navigation Testing - Helps to optimize user flows by asking users to complete specific tasks on a design and tracking their progress.

  • Prototype Testing with Figma - Displays how users navigate interactive Figma prototypes at every stage of the design process, to discover what to improve before shipping.

  • Card Sorting - Open and closed card sorting to discover how to organize and label content in a way that makes sense to the audience.

  • Tree testing - Used to assess and refine information architecture, and to understand how users expect to navigate and find the information they are looking for, and why.

  • Preference Testing - Helps to understand what audience prefers by asking participants to choose from multiple options in response to specific question.

  • Participant Recruitment - When it comes to participant recruitment, Lyssna allows testing with one's own users with a customizable recruitment link or access a target audience via their extensive panel. With over 690,000 people across 120+ countries, 55 languages and with 395+ demographics or attributes users can target by job function, industry or company size.

  • Granular location targeting - Pinpoint research participants not just by country, but by state or city.

  • Interviews - Consolidates the entire interview process in a single tool; planning, sourcing, screening, scheduling, communication, incentives, repository, and transcription.

  • Screeners - Ensures feedback is gathered from participants who meet a specific criteria, to achieve more targeted and relevant insights.

  • Recordings: See the experience through the eyes of your users with audio, screen, and video recordings on unmoderated tests.


Lyssna aims to help users:


Save time and money

By identifying audience preferences early the user can save time by focusing on what will give the highest chance of success. Identify issues early in the design process to avoid costly design or development changes down the road.


Improve user engagement

With insights gained from Lyssna, the user can make informed decisions to create more engaging and user-friendly experiences.


Increase conversion rates

Optimize design and messaging based on user feedback to increase conversions and revenue.


Enhance team collaboration

With Lyssna, teams can share feedback and insights to improve communication and collaboration.


Lyssna's suite of tools provides actionable feedback that allows teams to iterate and improve their designs. The solution boasts flexible pricing plans and a pay-as-you-go model for accessing their user panel to provide cost-effective ways for teams of all sizes to gain valuable user insights.


Categories & Use Cases

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Start up / beginner usability tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Previously have used Lyssna to get quick feedback on new concepts before they are launched, or to get some feedback on which design (out of a number / range) is the most impactful or interesting to a user at any one point. This has allowed us to have some data to back up the decisions that we are making.

Pros

  • Feedback on designs
  • Creating key tags / themes
  • Generating AI reports

Cons

  • More targeted screening
  • A portal of all opportunities rather than email invites

Return on Investment

  • Increased sprint releases as we have had data to back up new features
  • Positive of being more user led with our designs

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Askable and UserZoom

Other Software Used

Askable

Simple but extremely useful testing platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use UsabilityHub for quick remote unmoderated testing of eCommerce feature designs before they get implemented by developers. Our department is responsible for rolling out designs for desktop, mobile web, Android, IOS, and iPad. Usabilityhub allows us to test ideas for these platforms rapidly and cheaply at a wireframing level and also at a visual design level. We have our own tester database and that allows us to gather responses cheaply and timely.

Pros

  • Covers the most common unmoderated testing abilities.
  • Allows testing with an external source of users.
  • Well presented results and ability to download raw response data.

Cons

  • Improving the ability of switching off the collection of responses.
  • Different layout of the dashboard to find tests easier.
  • Date filter for tests.
  • Highlighting the template library when onboarding.

Usability

Most Important Features

  • Shareable testing link for external testers
  • Unlimited number of tests
  • Variation testing that simulates A/B

Return on Investment

  • Increase in testing frequency per quarter.
  • Increase in approved projects for developments.
  • Few reverts per project.

Alternatives Considered

Maze User Testing

Other Software Used

Maze User Testing, Hotjar, Crazy Egg

UsabilityHub- A fantastic tool for quickly validating / gathering feedback on designs

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

UsabilityHub is being used for validating designs with feedback from real people or for finding usability/clarity issues with new and existing designs/wireframes. It's a great tool for getting some relatively quick user feedback on a small or large scale. It's being used by more people in the organisation now as they've understood the value of using UsabilityHub and have started to use it within their design process.

The problem it addresses is that wireframes and designs don't receive enough real-world validation and can easily pass through the process all the way to go-live without other humans (other than the internal teams) seeing them, which could mean that mistakes/usability issues/clarity issues can limit the design's full potential.

Pros

  • Rapid user feedback
  • Demographic targeting
  • Well presented results
  • Easy to use
  • Relatively inexpensive

Cons

  • Further demographic targeting, e.g. by industry, job title, screeners
  • More guidance for less experienced users' tests to reach their full potential

Most Important Features

  • Quick recruitment
  • Multiple question types that mean you can use one tool for lots of research
  • Easy to use
  • Visualisations that can be copied straight into a presentation

Return on Investment

  • Ensured maximum ROI on designs by confirming they solve a problem and getting feedback pre-live
  • Helped people to integrate use feedback into their design processes

Alternatives Considered

UserZoom

Great tool for specific applications

Usability

Pros

  • Testing out design - ads/websites
  • User preference for a certain design
  • Ease of navigation of a certain page/series of pages

Cons

  • Add additional demographic sorting options for the audience to better meet the needs of B2B users - for example include industry type, functional area, etc.
  • Bring back the navigation test type
  • Add additional test types

Usability

Return on Investment

  • Positive - It would give us responses significantly faster than testing out a concept on a live site
  • Positive - It allowed us to reach a wider audience for our tests (beyond our website traffic)
  • Positive - The quick turnaround time and quality of feedback encouraged other internal units to want to test more as they saw the return quickly.

Alternatives Considered

VWO

Other Software Used

Decibel Insight, Google Analytics, Hotjar

Very fast user responses, great for testing website copy, design, images and CTAs

Usability

Pros

  • Very fast - you can have responses in minutes.
  • Very easy and straightforward to use. The interface is clear and intuitive.
  • They offer suggestions for questions that are effective, which is very helpful for a first time user.

Cons

  • If you want to [do a] review for UsabilityHub it is hard as their database is oversaturated. I was signed in every day for a week and never got asked to take a test.
  • It is difficult for them to vet their testers, so some reviews can lack quality.
  • The main thing it doesn't offer is video/audio recorded, immediate feedback, which sometimes gets better insights than when someone has to think about an answer and type it out.

Usability

Return on Investment

  • It has helped us to improve click-through rates on our CTA - which has increased conversions.
  • It has helped our homepage copy become much clearer, so visitors immediately understand what our company offers.
  • It has informed the design of our website, as previously users found it too plain and monochrome.

Alternatives Considered

WhatUsersDo and Hotjar

Other Software Used

Hotjar, WhatUsersDo, Google Analytics